Music: Berkeley trumpeter

Performing with the same stellar band he featured on his new album, "Roads & Codes," Berkeley trumpeter Ian Carey isn't letting the CD slip into obsolescence without a fight. A graphic designer by day, he supplied the slyly self-mocking manga-inspired illustrations that give the package a look as smart and arresting as the music it contains. Exploring an array of evocative material - from Neil Young's film theme "Dead Man" to Stravinsky's "Andante" and Carey's striking originals - the band features saxophonists Kasey Knudsen and Evan Francis (a former Bay Area standout back briefly from New York). 8 p.m. Thursday (Feb. 21). $15. The Sound Room, 2147 Broadway, Oakland. (415) 994-3501. www.soundroom.org.

Music: Blues Control

The move from New York to eastern Pennsylvania has rubbed off on the once-boisterous, noisier Blues Control. The twosome's last album, "Valley Tangents," evoked the Coltrane family on a meditation jag, then called forth krautrock combo Faust caught in a brooding, throbbing piano jam and Debussy enraptured by both electro dissonance and field recordings. Now Blues Control is doing what it must to become the hardest-touring unit on its Drag City label, making the most of empty spaces and those fertile tangents. With Rangda, Colossal Yes. 9 p.m. Saturday. $18-$22. The Chapel, 777 Valencia St., S.F. (415) 551-5157. www.thechapelsf.com.